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that at Cloonfinlough. Near the former, Ardekillan, was found a 
boat forty feet in length, and four feet across the bow hollowed 
out of a single oak! and in which werea skull, abronze pin, and 
aspear, which, by the liberality of Mr. R. Kelly, Iam permit- 
ted to present to the Academy. The skull is perforated in the 
forehead, and has the mark of no less than twenty sword-cuts 
on it, showing the murderous conflict in which its owner must 
have been engaged; and near to it were found a neck-piece of 
iron, and twenty feet of rude chain attached, that would do 
credit to the dungeons of Naples, and by which its unhappy 
victim was made fast. These, which I believe are perfectly 
unique, Mr. R. Kelly has also permitted me to present to the 
Museum; and they certainly do not afford any very exagge- 
rated idea of the humanity of our Milesian ancestors. 
«In conclusion, I would venture to suggest to the Aca- 
demy to have the other stockaded islands systematically exa- 
mined in the ensuing summer, and by parties capable of dog 
far more justice to the subject than so unexperienced an anti- 
quarian as the author of the present paper.” 
Robert Ball, LL.D., remarked that the discovery of bones 
of the Irish elk, in the locality described by Mr. Kelly, was 
not conclusive evidence that the other bones and the anti- 
quities found with them were contemporary with the period 
of that animal in Ireland. 
George Petrie, LL.D., made some remarks on ancient 
crannog islands, and on the iron articles discovered in those 
at Dunshaughlin and Cloonfree. 
The Earl of Enniskillen made some remarks in relation to 
crannog islands, and read the following memorandum, which 
had been given to him by the Rev. William Smyth Burnside, 
with certain antiquities described therein, which he presented 
